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From: fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields)
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Subject: Re: Cnews on SCO UNIX.
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Date: 5 Apr 91 02:51:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr02.032343.4830@xstor.com> iverson@xstor.com (Tim Iverson) writes:
>I've been up and running since January under Cnews and SCO Unix.  There's a
>trick to it, though; you probably don't want to compile Cnews with
>Microsoft C (cc).  Try using AT&T's compiler (rcc) and you'll have much
>better luck.  You'll have better luck still using a version of gcc 1.39
>that's been patched for #pragma pack.

I haven't had any problems with the CC on SCO Unix 3.2.2 and the devsys.
However, with GNU EMACS, I had to use rcc -E for my C preprocessor to get
it to "preprocess" it's makefile.

About this "history.pag" file. Mine is beginning to get excessively large.
It's around one meg right now. How do I get it smaller. What is it? Can I
delete it?

Doug
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